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Launch of a UAV.
The most expensive way to launch your model!
The University of Strasbourg have their own ideas about drone design.
You might think this is novel, but it is only one short step
from the early Russian
Ellipse Plane which apparently showed excellent flying characteristics.
This US Half scale Star Wars flying X Plane model..Did'nt!
But this one did!
The maiden flight of a rather nice C47, rather spoiled by a case of aileron reversal.
Not for the squeamish!
Emergency one engine landing- nearly succeeded!
A beautiful scale B25
An enthusiastic maiden flight sadly ends with a detached aileron. Hinges stressed by flutter- who knows!
Was this experimental wing really expected to fly?
To my mind- too much power and too little aerodynamics!
The Cri Cri, the smallest twin engined aerobatic plane. We've seen larger models!
EADS, the Airbus parent company, early in 2010, announced that
they have re-designed the Cri Cri to carry Li-po batteries
and re-engined the pocket aerobat with four brushless electric motors.
Click on the pic to read more.
The "One Wing Landing" Section
There have been full scale 'One Wing Landings' long before the Video age!
but here are some to raise your eyebrows.
Jim Bourke, one of the developers of the 'RealFlight' simulator,
borrowed a model recently and found himself in a real life Knife Edge situation.
Here is a Kiwi flier having a one wing experience of his own.
These exploits have encouraged some model fliers to see if they have skill levels equal to this sort of one wing landing,
most just on a simulator, but here is one who happened to have a video recorder running when he tried it for real.
Here is R.J.Gritter's 'event', he boasts, amongst other things, that he needed two circuits to line up for landing.
This is the hairy video which is causing such a stir!
This Video recently surfaced on the web
A full scale aerobatic plane looses a wing in practice at about 500 feet, yet makes an amazing safe landing!
and here is an interview, soon afterwards with the pilot, Jim Andersson.
Could this be an aerobatic stunt?
Could it be a genuine wing failure and a brilliant feat of airmanship?
We hear that the cameraman was a video games designer, so has the whole episode been faked?
The discussion is reverberating around several forums, but you must decide for yourself! :-)
Be our guest!
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And to close this paragraph about 'One Wing'Fliers', you might be interested to read a detailed report by the late Neil Williams,
Captain of the British Aerobatic Team, following the catastrophic failure of a lower wing bolt in his Zlin, during practice in 1970.
By flying inverted circuits at -ve G he was able to prevent his Port wing folding upwards.
He then made an inverted approach and performed a low level flick roll to plant his wheels onto the tarmac!
His controlled crash landing was so skillful that he survived to write this comprehensive report on the incident,
subsequently described as" An incredible feat of Airmanship"
Neil Williams sadly died in an Aircrash in 1977.
In August 2010 a Rans S9 Chaos, ( a self build aerobat) under -ve G, lost a wing at an Argentinian airshow. Thanks to modern technology, the plane's Ballistic Recovery System deployed and the young pilot escaped with his life.
Watch this model B29 display and be amazed!
But on the 13th September '08 this B29 displayed for the last time, very sad!
( reportedly 2 wing bolts were not installed during a hurried preparation)
The Dragon...Just see what can be done with a little silk, smoke-on and some atmospheric lighting!!
Inverted beneath a low bridge! Hairaising full scale aerobatics!
This is a V12 4 stroke, air cooled glow (Nitro) engine.
A miniature engineering masterpiece.
Who needs a Bungee launch!
First flight on a very gusty day , a beautiful twin Turbo powered King Air model.
It happens to us all the time, but we are only flying RC models!
This is Ali Machinchy's superb demonstration of his piloting skills at Weston Park in 2009.
Suggest that you might like to punch his name into the Youtube search box
and enjoy his Typhoon vectored thrust programme and many others.
What a display pilot!
Just watch this faultless flight of a beautiful Blackbird.( auf Deutsch)
Scale big bird modelling in the Czech Republic is alive and well!
Just enjoy the tour of this beautiful 4.5m wingspan L410 UVP
Hanger 9 fly 'The Beast'
Be careful not to let a novice loose.
Fortunately nobody got hurt!
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